Thunderbird and Firefox integration problem

Every time a new version of Firefox or Thunderbird comes out, it becomes impossible to open links in FF from TB and vice versa. Here’s what to do:

Go into /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.23/thunderbird.cfg as root. Change it to read:

pref(“network.protocol-handler.app.http”, “mozffremote”);
pref(“network.protocol-handler.app.https”, “mozffremote”);
pref(“network.protocol-handler.app.ftp”, “mozffremote”);
pref(“network.protocol-handler.app.http”, “/usr/lib/firefox-3.5.3/firefox”);
pref(“network.protocol-handler.app.https”, “/usr/lib/firefox-3.5.3/firefox”);
pref(“network.protocol-handler.app.ftp”, “/usr/lib/firefox-3.5.3/firefox”);

In FF: edit > preferences > applications > mail to.  Choose ‘use thunderbird”. If that option does not show up choose “use other” and direct it to /usr/bin/thunderbird

Unfortunately, on thunderbird 3.0 for linux that workaround can be accomplished no more because Thunderbird calls a script  /usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0/openbrowers.sh and attempts to read the preferred browser from the gconf settings.

So to make it work you can edit the script and just add exec firefox after the #Exit with Error Message.

# Exit with Error Message
exec firefox

or you can copy and paste in a terminal console.

gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/